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NCBA doesn't want to Compete with Aussies??????

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Anonymous

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I've been mulling this over for a day- article just didn't sit right with me - Now is Mike John just blowing smoke to make the Aussies happy- or is the millions of checkoff and promotion dollars being spent over in Japan being used to help the Aussie trade too- and we will pick up the scraps :???: ....

What we should be doing is sending them M-COOL labeled USA BEEF- BSE tested if thats what sells, Promoting USA born and raised BEEF, and taking back the market that Australia has built...

Sounds to me like Mike Johns and the NCBA folk have bought into the Multinational Packers global beef world hook, line, and sinker... :( :mad:

Very sad when a "supposed US cattle organization" refuses to promote US beef
:cry:

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US vows not to compete over Japanese beef market



ABC Rural

Tuesday, 17/10/2006

Australia



The United States beef industry has pledged to try to expand the Japanese beef market, rather than take market share from Australia.



Australia is currently hosting beef producers from the United States, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand for the annual five nation beef talks.



The president of the US National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Mike John, says they would rather grow a contracted Japanese beef market than compete against Australia.



"I don't really look at it as a competitive issue, I think that the entire beef consumption is down in Japan - I mean regardless of where the beef comes from," he said.



"So I think together if we work at getting the consumer demand back up for beef we will all benefit from that and so it isn't as much competition as it is getting the Japanese used to eating beef."





abc.net.au
 

Econ101

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In a contracted market they can eventually take the profits instead of having to pass them through to producers through the forces of competition. It is the model they have set up in poultry and now hogs. It is really no wonder that they would try to do this. The Congress/DOJ/executive and judicial branches have sat idly by while the packers have bought their way into the industry through the forces of veritical integration and now Johns says it outright.

There are just too many cattlemen who will see it too late. Creekstone was just the first victory for this big market dominated non competitive system.
 

Sandhusker

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"The president of the US National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Mike John, says they would rather grow a contracted Japanese beef market than compete against Australia"

Somebody please tell me this is a misquote. :shock: A statement like this could not possibly come from an outfit representing US producers.
 

Mike

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When I read the statement I wonder.........................

WHAT would make him say such a thing?

Is he scared that if we compete with the Aussies for the Jap market will it piss them off and they will quit sending those good lean trimmings to the USA that makes our fat so valuable? :lol: :lol: :lol:

I guess I keep forgetting that the big packers here are already shipping lots of beef to the Japs from the "Down Under". :???:
 

RobertMac

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If they grow the "contracted Japanese beef market" like they have grown the contracted USA beef market, the Aussies have nothing to worry about! :mad:
 

Sandhusker

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If somebody gave you that quote without telling you who said it and you had to guess if it came from a US cattleman's org., a US packers org., or a multi-national packers org., what would be your guess? Who would you think would be the last person to say it?

I'm just sitting here shaking my head. You NCBAers want to try to explain this?
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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Oie, now I've heard it all. I realize this is a US cattlemen's group, but don't compete against our competition?

I fully support a global economy, and eventually, one day, we will be there. However a global economy must rely on a level playing field, something that government (and the NCBA) apparently doesn't seem to recognize. By level playing field, I don't mean environmental conditions, but rather humanitarian conditions. Equal forms of representative government, one currency, same payscale for same jobs, no matter where in the world they may be. Then we can have a truly global economy where environmental conditions dictate what gets grown and produced in what area of the world.

Rod
 

Sandhusker

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Next they'll try to grow the meat market without competing against chicken or pork? Has this guy even had a high school class in marketing? Why in the world would a US producer support this?
 

Econ101

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Sandhusker said:
Next they'll try to grow the meat market without competing against chicken or pork? Has this guy even had a high school class in marketing? Why in the world would a US producer support this?

Maybe he is interested in growing America's middle and has a secret ingredient that passes the sound science test and makes you eat more.

Nothing like growing your market.

I see now why they went after those skinny Japanese. More room for expansion.
 

PORKER

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The president of the US National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Mike John, says they would rather grow a contracted Japanese beef market than compete against Australia.

This is BS

"I don't really look at it as a competitive issue, I think that the entire beef consumption is down in Japan - I mean regardless of where the beef comes from," he said.

More BS
 
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